There are plenty of photo managers that enable you to collate your photos,
sort them within categories, pick and select favourite images, rate them and
then view them in a particular order. There are also a number of photo
enhancement tools that will enable you to touch up your images, add special
effects and spend time enhancing them for printing on your new inkjet printer.
Surprisingly, there are fewer tools designed for you to maximise how you
presented your photos to other users, particularly your friends and family, who
wanted to see the finished article, as quickly as possible. You want to present
these photos to family in a slideshow, either on disc or on the web.
Microsoft Photo Story 3 is a tool that is designed to take existing photos or
images and then enable you to add a title, background music, narration and then
export them to a format that you can easily email to another user, show from
your desktop or allow playback from a portable device.
Note that the export options are rather limited to Microsoft Media Player
supported devices – therefore the recipient will require Microsoft Windows Media
Player 10 or higher installed.